On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 08:28:52AM +0000, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I have a networked Brother-HL5350DN printer which has worked fine > with CUPS for over a year. Two days ago it suddenly refused to > print on my desktop running -current I reconfigured the printer > several times without effect. > > I then set up CUPS on a laptop running -release. It also failed. In > both cases the printer appears on screen and I can queue jobs for > printing as normal but they don't print. The printer itself is > working normally from my wife's computer. I cam ping the printer > without difficulty. > > I turned on debug and found this: > [Job 30] Unable to locate printer \"BRN001BA92DB44A\" > > I'm mystified. Whenever I've set up the printer in CUPS previously > it has always worked. The only clue I found was on Arch Linux where > they talk about needing to set up avahi jn such cases, but I don't > know if that is relevant here. > > Any ideas gratefully received.
Can you share your configuration? If it's a network printer, it could be that cups is trying to connect to your printer using avahi which doesn't work on OpenBSD. You must make sure you configure your printer using hostname or IP. -- Antoine
